Spoiler Alert: Hoffman tributes justified

1:13 AM,
Feb. 8, 2014

This Jan. 19 photo shows Phillip Seymour Hoffman posing for a portrait at The Collective and Gibson Lounge Powered by CEG, during the Sundance Film Festival, in Park City, Utah. Hoffman was found dead Sunday in his New York apartment. He was 46.

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Todd Hill
Media Network of Central Ohio

"While women will always be a problem for us, most of the great art in the world is about that very same problem. Good-looking people don't have any spine. Their art never lasts. They get the girls, but we're smarter." - Philip Seymour Hoffman as music journalist Lester Bangs in the 2000 film "Almost Famous."

It's no less tragic when someone who doesn't happen to be famous dies far too soon after struggling with addiction, just to get that obvious fact out of the way.

Another perception that may need to be corrected while we're on this subject is the one that celebrities who die unexpectedly are ...